Isn't this the laser that they invented in the movie Real Genius? See, Val was right, they did invent it for the military.

Next up, making a huge house full of pop corn!

In the movie the final laser is 6 megawatts. The Navy HEL shot is 100kW, about 1/60th of the movie weapon. It's pretty obvious 100kW is more than enough to kill a human. With an effective range of dozens or hundreds of miles these lasers could be used for sniping missions.

But according to this abstract, there are also "strategic" class lasers also in development in the "multi-megawatt" range...stuff still classified...

No. If you didn't notice from the scoring on the hood of that trunk, your little mirror will melt in under a second under the energy of these lasers. It's funny how Hollywood has formed your perception of lasers, isn't it.

No. If you didn't notice from the scoring on the hood of that trunk, your little mirror will melt in under a second under the energy of these lasers. It's funny how Hollywood has formed your perception of lasers, isn't it.

Are you retarded?? A truck hood will absorb the energy from a laser, where as a mirror will reflect it. Unless this laser uses a meathod other than light it would reflect off of a mirror. Please post a video of ANY laser actually melting a mirror.